Your teeth in their hands -ongoing training and education

Our commitment to ongoing training and education, both giving and receiving it, for your benefit continues. The last two months have been very busy for the whole team on several fronts.

In early May, the Association of Dental Implantologists held their annual three -day conference in Birmingham at International Conference Centre. There, anyone who is anyone in the field of dental implants in the UK, as well as top flight International speakers, kept us up to date on the very latest research and techniques. Later in the month I attended The Dental Sedation Teachers Group annual conference, also in Birmingham, at The Dental Hospital, to join the UK's leading experts in sedation for anxious patients for a full day's update.

At the end of May , Chris and I travelled over to Wexford, Via Bristol- Cork flight. There I gave one of my practical teaching courses on Happy Air (RA) sedation, to a small group of mainly Irish dentists. This was the first time I have delivered this teaching day away from my practice in Newbury. Following attending my course in Newbury during 2006, Dr. Anne O'Donnell of Wexford, invited me to run the course in Ireland and so Chris and I flew to Cork and were driven across to Wexford by Anne. Chris and Anne sat through the entire course again. They each deserve a medal! Chris,of course is both a qualified Dental Nurse and Dental Sedation Assistant.

They were both at hand to help answer the many questions which arise during a very interactive day, Chris in particular was able to pass on her many years of experience.

We set up the surgery video link and radio mic. on Friday at about 11pm ready for the 9 a.m. start the next day. The conference facilities at White's Hotel were superb and , the day went down very well. One Dentist came across to Wexford from Banbury. Another Irish dentist living in Germany, drove all the way to Wexford but unfortunately he arrived on the Sunday and missed the day ! He says he'll be back.

Here I am , hard at work on Bank Holiday Saturday!

We are booked to deliver the course again in October.

Since it was Bank Holiday we took an extra day and stayed at the excellent Kelly's Resort Hotel in Rosslare, which has a truly Mediterranean look to it,

So combined with the legendary Irish Hospitality, excellent food and friendliness ( not to mentioned the velvety- smooth black stuff) , we had a memorable weekend.